Ms. Rackow studied Aesthetic Realism with its founder, Eli Siegel, and now studies in classes taught by the Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, Ellen Reiss. She is a graduate of Barnard College, where she received a dual degree in French Literature and Art History. She studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and lived and worked in Europe for several years, studying painting in Paris, Rome, and Florence. She exhibits at the Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

In public seminars at the Foundation, Ms. Rackow has spoken on the lives and work of many artists, including David Smith, Henri Matisse, Titian, Claude Monet, Frank Stella, Sonia Delaunay, Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Antoine Watteau, Suzanne Valadon, Artemisia Gentileschi, Leonardo da Vinci, and Kathe Kollwitz. She is a coordinator of the Terrain Gallery, and has curated and arranged exhibitions there, including the “50th Anniversary Exhibition!”